Seremban trader pleads guilty to using criminal force on reporter, gets RM1,000 fine


SEREMBAN: A 41-year-old trader was fined the maximum RM1,000 after he pleaded guilty at the Magistrate's court here to a charge of using criminal force against a reporter covering the campaign of an election candidate.

S. Subramaniam did not contest the charge when it was read to him before magistrate Mohamad Ibrahim Mohammd Ghulam.

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